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08612n52g5d	Suzanna Krivulskaya	Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, 1832-1988	2019		.txt	text/plain	302	11	29	Second, whereas other studies have mostly focused on single instances of scandal's reach, this dissertation traces long-term trajectories of pastoral sex scandal coverage, thereby presenting a more comprehensive picture of how scandal shaped American religion. Using the understudied intersection of scandal and religion, this project argues that scandal coverage allowed the press to compete with the pulpit as a source of moral authority, forced denominations to restructure, and emboldened sustained public scrutiny of religious piety.	cache/08612n52g5d.txt	txt/08612n52g5d.txt